Synchronous phonograph and kinetograph.



I. KITSEE. SYNCHRONOUS PHONOGRAPH AND KINETOGRAPH.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1. I912 Patented Jan.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 1. I912- Patonted Jan. 30, 1917.

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l. KITSEE. SYNCHRONOUS PHONOGRAPH AND KINETOGRAPH.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1912. 1,218,888. Patented Jan. 30, 1917.

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WM mama I. KITSEE.

SYNCHRONOUS PHONOGRAPH AND KINETOGRAPH. APPLICATION FILED JULY 1. 1912.

1,21 3,883. Patented Jan. 30, 1917.

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g dlifomey KH'SEE.

SYNCHRONOUS PHONOGRAPH AND KINETOGRAPH.

APPLICATION FILED JULY i, 1912. 1 %13,,888. Patente Jan. 30 19; n

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISIDOR KITSEE, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB TO THE CORT-KITSEE 00., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SYNCHRONOUS PHONOGRAPH AND KINIETOGR AII-I.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1917.

Application filed July 1, 1912. Serial No. 706,887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ismon Krrsnn, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have 1nvented a new and useful Synchronous Phonograph and Kinetograph, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to synchronous phonograph and kinetograph mechanisms, that is, moving picture mechanism and phonograph mechanism operating in synchronism or step with each other so that the movements of pictures or objects in the shall be accompanied with exactness by the reproduction of sounds which originate with the same movements of objects or figures. I

My invention resides in synchronous phonograph andkinetograph mechanisms in which a pneumatic controlling or motive device is employed for controlling ordriving, by preference, the kinetograph mechanism, such control or motive device being controlled by the other of the mechanisms, by preference, the phonograph.

The pneumatic control or motive device is characterized by construction affording substantially dead points beyond which a motive fluid, preferably air, cannot actuate the individual part with which it cooperates, so that the control device or motive device as a whole cannot run ahead of or lag behind the other mechanism, as the phonograph.

In one of the forms my invention may take, a plurality of reciprocating pneumatic engines are employed, the admission of the ower fluid or air to the different cylinders being controlled by electro-magnetically actuated valves, the electro-magnetic actuating means being in turn controlled by a commutator driven or movable in definite relation with a sound record of a phonograph.

For an illustration of one of the forms my invention may take reference is. to be had to the accompanying drawings,in which:

Figure 1 is aside elevational view of the pneumatic control or motive device. Fig.

3 is a rear elevational view-of the same. Fig. 4 is a front view-of the. support for the cylinders. Fi 5 is a sectional view through a cylinder va ve and valve magnet, showcylinder there is a port or'passage Fig.

ing the valve in the closed position. Fig.6 is a sectional view, similar to Fig. 5, showing the valve in the open position. Fig. 7 comprises a perspective view and a longitudinal sectional view, partly in elevation, of the movable member of the valve. Fig. 8 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the one form the electrical control circuits may take. Fig. 9 is an assembly view, partiall diagrammatic, showing the kinetograph control led by the phonograph.

Referring first to Fig. 9, 1 is a table or support, provided with legs 2, upon which is supported the kinematograph mechanism, comprising kinetograph K and lantern L, as illustrated, for example, in my application Serial No. 696,995, filed May 13, 1912. A sprocket chain or other driving means 3 extends through the table 1 and drives the kinetograph mechanism, as for example, in said prior application. The sprocket chain 3 passes over the s rocket wheel 4 secured upon the crank sha t 5 having the bearings 6 held by bolts 7 to the bed plate 8 of the control or motive device, the bed plate 8 having the lugs 9 secured to the table 1 by bolts 10. The support'11 for the cylinders of the control or motive device is secured to the bed plate 1 by the bolts 12. The cylinder support 11 has a screw threaded opening 13 for each cylinder ofithe'control or motive device. Four cylinders 14, 15-, 16 and 17 are screw threaded into these openings 13, the member. 11 forming the heads of all the cylinders. Each cylinder is provided with a piston 18 to which there is'pivoted at 19 a connecting rod 20 having at its other end a bearing 21 embracing a crank pin 22, there being a crank 23 on the shaft 5 for each crank pin. 7 The crank pins are set, in the example illustrated, at 90 with respect to each other.

Secured air tight tothe rear of the cylinder support 11 by screws 24" is a manifold 24 receiving at 25 the pipe 26 leading to a source or reservoir of air pressure or to a source or reservoir of any other suitable gas or motive fluid, as for example carbon-dioxid or the like compressed in a tank. For each 27 communicating with the manifold 24. Associated with the port 27 is a cylinder port 27 and a valve seat 28 a ainst which is adapted to be. seated theva ve 29 attached to or forming part of the iron core or armature phere; lln the core'30 is a diagonally dis posed passage 37 which brings theports 35 and 36 into communication with each other when the valve is seated as shown in Fig. 5. To prevent rotation of the core 30, there is secured thereto a pin 38 movablein the ver tical slot 39in theniernber 11. The core 30 is provided With passages 40 and 41, the former extending entirely through the member 30, and the latter communicating with the passage 37. These vided to allow the motive fluid or gas to surround the stem 30, to prevent excess of pressure thereon in any direction, thereby making the valve what is known as a'balanced valve. The core or stem 30 is normally held up so that the valve 29 is seated against the seat 28 by the spring 42. Inasmuch as the stroke ormovement of the member 30 need not be great, each solenoid is provided with the stationary magnetizable core 43, upon which the spring 42 rests, the part 43 extending, with smaller diameter toward the core 30, the spring 42 surrounding this part of reduced diameter.

' Referring now to Fig. 8, the four solenoid windings are indicated at 31, 32, 33 and 34. Each has a terminal connected to the conductor 44 connecting to one terminal of a source of current 45 Whose other terminal is connected with commutator brush 46 hearing uponthe circumferentially. continuous commutator ring 'or contact 47 with which the commutator contacts 48, 49, 50 and 51 are ermanently in, electrical communication.

he contacts 48, 49, 50 and ;51 are spaced commutator so that only oneof around the them is in circuit at a time. Theother terminal of winding 31 connects through conductor 52 with brush 53 adapted toengage commutator contact 48; the other terminal of Winding 32 communicates through conductor 54 with brush 55 adapted to engage contact 49; the other terminal of winding33 communicates through conductor 56 with brush 5'? adapted to come into engagement with contact 50; and the remaining'terminal of winding 34 communicates through conductor 58 with brush 59 adapted to engage contact 51.

llnasmuch as the phonograph and kinetograph are generally separate from each other a considerable distance, the conductors 52, 54, 56, and 58 and 44 extend from the 'tion with the sound record R of HSSZL 'GS are I'O- the sound record so that names I phonograph to the kinetograph, and may be disposed in a cable if desire The commutator is shown in Fig. 8 as developed, or rolled out into a planefor the sake of clearness. In actual construction however the contacts 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51 are disposed upon a suitable cylinder or support C of insulating' material secured upon shaft drivenby or in definite relathe phonograph, as by belt or chain 66 driven by shaft 67 of the phonograph.

The conductors 44, 52, 54, 56 and 58 lead to binding posts 60 which may be disposed, as indicated in F ig; 9, upon the table 1 by securing them to the insulating'member 61 which is itself secured to the table 1.

The operation is as". follows: When the sound record R is in motion, the commutator C movesin definite relation therewith. First, for example, solenoid winding 31 is energized by current flowing from source 45' through brush 46, contact 47, to'contact 48, through brush 53, conductor 52, winding 31, to conductor 44. The solenoid 31 being new energized, it attracts its core 30 downwardly and removes valve 29 from seat 28, allowing pressure. to be'exerted behind the piston 18, the air behind the piston 18 during previous; operation having been exhaust- '15 which gives a further impulse to the shaft 5. And upon denergization of solenoid 31, spring 42 returns valve 29 to its seat, cuttingofi air supply to cylinder 14 and exhausting the And so on in succession the difl'erent solenoids are energized in succession with the resultant admission of pressure to and ex- 55,.causing energization of sole-" air back of piston 18.

haustion from the different cylinders in succession, producing roation or shaft 5,

sprocket wheel 4 and movement of chain 3 to drive the kinetograph mechanism, In consequence the kinetograph mechanism is driven or controlled inesynchronism with the proper'movement of the figures or objects in the moving pictures accompanying the sounds originally produced in accompaniment with such movements. And from the character of the control or motive: device it is apparent that it cannot run any faster than allowed by the commutator, and therefore by the sound record, and that it cannot lag behind the commutator or sound record in its movement.

While I have illustrated electro-magnetically controlled valves, it is to be understood that the valves may be controlled by any other means controlled by the sound record; the valves may be controlled pneumatically by air or other medium under pressure controlled in turn by small pilot valves actuated in succession in definite relation with the movement of the sound record.

What I claim is:

1. The combination of a sound machine, a pneumatic engine and a picture machine adapted to be driven by said engine of electro-magnetic valve mechanism controlling said engine, said mechanism controlled by said sound machine.

2. The combination with a kinetograph and a sound producing machine, of-pneumatic means driving said kinetograph, electro-magnetic valve mechanism controlling said pneumatic means, said valve mechanism controlled by said sound producing machine.

3. The combination with a kinetograph and a sound record, of pneumatic means driving one of them, valve mechanism controlling said pneumatic means, magnetic means controlling said valve mechanism, and switching mechanism controlled by the other of them controlling said electro-magnetic means.

4. The combination with a kinetograph and sound record, of a plurality of pneumatic engines controlling the movement of one of them, valve mechanism controlling said engines, electro-magnetic means controlling said valve mechanism, and switching mechanism controlled by the other of them controlling said electro-magnetic means.

5. The combination with a kinetograph and sound record, of reciprocating pneumatic engines controlling the movement of one of them, valve mechanism controlling said engines, electro-magnetic means controlling said valve mechanism, and switching mechanism controlled them controlling said means.

6. The combination with a kinetograph and sound record, of a plurality of reciprocating pneumatic engines controlling the movement of one of them, a valve for each electro magnetic -g1nes occurrlng at electro-' magnetic means In testimony whereof I have hereunto afby the other of.

engine, electro-magnetic means controlling each valve, and a commutator moving in definite relation with the other of them controlling said electro-magnetic means.

7 The combination with a kinetograph and sound record, a plurality of reciprocating pneumatic engines controlling the movement of one of them, admission and exhaust valves for each of said engines, an electro-magnet controlling said admission and exhaust valves, and a commutator moving in definite relation with the other of them controlling said electro-magnets.

8. The combination with a kinetograph and sound record of means to synchronize the movements of both of them, said means comprising a pneumatic engine and electromagnetic controlled valves for same and operated by said sound record.

9. The combination with a kinetograph and sound record, of a plurality of pneumatic engines controlling the movement of said kinetograph, each engine having dead centers, the dead centers of the different endifi'erent times, a valve controlling each engine, and electro-mag;

netic means controlled by said sound record controlling said valves in succession.

10. The combination with a kinetograph and soundrecord, of a plurality of pneumatic engines controlling the movement of one of them, each engine having a dead center, the dead center of the diflt'erent engines occurring at different times, a valve for each engine, an electro-magnet controlling each valve, and a commutator controlled by the other of them controlling said electro-magnets in succession.

11. The combination with a kinetograph and sound record, of a plurality of pneu matic pressure devices for moving said kinetograph, each pneumatic device capable of definitely limited movement only, electromagnetic means controlling energization of each of said pneumatic devices, and a commutator moving in definite relation with said sound record controlling said electroin succession.

fixed my signature in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

ISIDOR KITSEE.

Witnesses:

ELEANOR T. McCALL, BnA'rnrcE WHITNEY. 

